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Midland Middle School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Midland Middle School
As a modestly sized middle school in Midland, Georgia, Midland Middle School caters to 455 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Muscogee County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so Midland Middle School sits 40% smaller than that benchmark.
Within Muscogee County, which oversees 54 schools and 30,091 students, Midland Middle School is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Midland Middle School reports that 64% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 15% White, 10% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 47% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages about 14.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Muscogee County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Midland Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 28.2%, a residual of +2.5 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Muscogee County) reports that median household earnings sit near $58,073, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Midland Middle School is one of 57 public schools in Muscogee County (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students).
The closest other public school is Midland Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Midland Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Midland Middle School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 39.1%.
The school occupies a city-core site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 10%: 413 students in 2018 compared to 455 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 30% to 15% over that span.
In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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